‘Newsworthy’ Posts

A new Facebook feature is putting your account’s security in the hands of your most trusted friends. Working as a password recovery tool, Trusted Contacts allows you to set up additional security for situations where you find yourself locked out of your account. It started off as a test feature in 2011, but is now ...

As economic growth continues to be sluggish, leaving record numbers of college graduates unemployed or underemployed, and student loan debt topping $1 trillion for the first time in US history, politicians have continued to call for more emphasis to be placed on the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in order to keep ...

A new survey has found that 41 percent of recent college graduates find themselves in work that does not require a college degree. Accenture, one of the world’s largest consulting firms, surveyed 1,005 new workers who graduated in 2011 and 2012 (without going to graduate school) to compare job realities with the expectations of the ...

Last year student debt exceeded the $1 trillion mark, surpassing credit card debt. On average, a student graduates with over $25,000 in debt and 17.3% are expected to default on their federal loans. The general public has been clamoring for a solution to the student debt problem and rightfully so. President Obama’s 2014 Budget proposal ...

Most college kids these days spend an exorbitant amount of time on their smartphones. When the Facebook app became available 24/7, it was basically game over for productivity. Fortunately, these amazing little devices are good for more than just stalking that chick from Anthropology of Social Classes, and may soon have an even larger hand ...

Last November, Spelman College shocked the world of college sports by announcing that they were leaving the NCAA and dropping the school’s athletics department entirely. The administration of the traditionally black women’s college noted that out of their $100 million budget, $900,000 was allocated for the school’s athletics department, which was composed of only 80 ...

Netflix will soon offer a new plan that allows users to play four simultaneous streams from different devices, making it easier and cheaper to share an account. The plan, marketed toward families, was announced in a letter to shareholders on Monday. The upgrade will only cost users $4 more per month, up from $7.99 to ...

Cooper Union, a New York City-based college that has famously offered full-ride scholarships to all of its students, has announced today that they will begin requiring all students to begin paying tuition, marking the end of a 110 period of free education. The college’s Board of Trustees announced that the decision to end the school’s ...

If you spend a lot of time online, especially on Facebook, you should definitely know what CISPA is. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act is that little piece of paper that allows/requires technology companies to share the information they’ve harvested from their customers with the United States Government. It’s meant to protect the United States government ...

Rumors of Apple creating everything from a television to a watch have become common, but a new partnership with Volkswagen is bringing the company one step closer to an iCar. Unveiled at the 2013 Shanghai Auto Show in China, the German carmaker’s new iPhone-integrated iBeetle features a dedicated dashboard docking station and a special Beetle ...

Swarthmore College, which recently topped The Princeton Review’s list of best value private colleges in the nation, has been the subject of a complaint to the Department of Education for allegedly under-reporting sexual assaults on campus and discouraging victims from formally reporting incidents at all. The complaint states that the school has frequently violated the ...

WARNING – This post contains language that some may consider offensive. Laura Curry, a professor at the University at Buffalo, was arrested Monday after cursing at a student pro-life display on the university’s campus. Curry, an adjunct media studies professor, was reportedly charged with disorderly conduct for yelling at the students in charge of the ...